Here are Press TV's latest top stories at 17:00 GMT, September 23, 2023

The US is planning to set up a new command post in Japan, a third Indo-Pacific command post after Hawaii and South Korea.

The US has approved the $5bn sale of advanced F-35 fighter jets to South Korea.

North Korea and South Korea are divided by a profusion of issues, including the date of their foundation.

Tehran rejects a joint statement by Japan and some Arab countries about Iran’s sovereignty over three islands in the Persian Gulf.

South Koreans continue to protest against Japan's dumping of Fukushima nuclear plant's contaminated wastewater.

South Korean activists have accused Seoul of suppressing the human right to assemble and demonstrate after it decided to ban rallies following protests over Japan’s release of wastewater from the Fukushima nuclear plant into the sea.